Month: September 2017

For my candidate Wikipedia page, I’m choosing the novel Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. I read the book a few months ago for one of my other literature classes, and I immediately fell in love with the heartwrenching story and the elegant writing. For such a popular book, I was surprised to see how little was mentioned on its page. So far whats included on the page is a summary of the plot, slight discussion about the writing style, and the mention of the […]

While I do believe that annotations are supposed to help the reader, I found them overwhelming and distracting during this assignment. Throughout the whole experience, on both sets of the annotated versions, I felt obligated to look at all the annotations. In some cases, it was interesting to see how certain lines or words referenced a historical moment or an outside literary piece, but at the same time, it felt like information overload. Almost every annotation seemed like a mini […]